Another in the series of bitesize blog posts about features in MQ V8. Check out the whole series here . WebSphere MQ Advanced Message Security (or AMS) is now available as an optionally installable component for MQ on the IBM i platform with MQ v8, this is the...

It was my birthday on Saturday and by pure luck my Raspberry Pi was delivered the day before - what a great day "hacking" (in the old sense of the word). I have been waiting for a few months for this delivery - What a treat!! If you have not heard...

I was with a large UK based insurance company last week. They, and their facilities management team, run many very large machines like POWER6 595 and POWER7 Power 770/780. Most machines are 64 core and 2 TB of memory and running 160+ virtual machines (LPARs)...

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 We have been blogging about many messaging topics and related technologies like WebSphere MQ , telemetry , WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server integration. Today we'll look at...

Oh My God. I'm sorry, but OMG*! Read cache hits. OK, so we can all do them, we can all do lots of them, but it seems only HDS, or maybe Hu (or whoever writes his marketing page that passes for a blog) thinks that Storage users are blinded by science. We don't,...